Re: Newcomer

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:09:26 GMT0BST, "Damon M. Lord"
<LordDM@...> wrote:

>So here's a conlanging Q to start me off - since I began, I've just
>been adding vocabulary as I've been going along as and when I need
>it. Is there any core vocab I need to consider to give the lang a
>kick in the the right direction? I was thinking of tinkering with the
>Swadesh list as a starter....
I've used Rick Harrison's Universal Language Dictionary (not sure where
that might be found at the moment on the web...) and the Lojban gismu list
(http://www.animal.helsinki.fi/lojban/gismutot.html). The gismu list has a
lot of useful synonyms and cross-references; you need to learn a little
about how Lojban works before it makes much sense, but that's a useful
thing to know in any case. The ULD also comes in handy, if you can find it,
since its words are roughly organized into categories. Raw lists of words
in no particular order are less useful, in my experience. But I've recently
been dissatisfied with many of the "mass-produced" words in my languages,
and I've been going back to making them one at a time, as I need them, or
concentrating on relatively small groups of related words.

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